Art Department Faculty Quadrennial Exhibition 2016 January 2016

Emily Arthur Assistant Professor UW–Madison Department of Art, since 2014 Printmaking 4 Quadrennial 2016 | Faculty 2000 Master of Fine Arts, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts 2000 The Barnes Foundation Fellowship 1995 Bachelor of Arts/Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Georgia Recent achievements 2016 Emily Arthur, Art of Conservation Genetics, solo show, Sheppard Contemporary Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno 2016 Emily Arthur: Endangered, solo show, Weingart Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles 2015 New Times Three, group show, Blue Spiral 1 Gallery, Asheville, NC 2015 Reflections: Artful Perspectives on the St. Johns River, group show, Cummer Museum of Art and Gardens, Jacksonville, FL 2015 Re-Riding History: From the Southern Plains to the Matanzas Bay, group show, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, FL 2014 East Coast Screenprint Biennial, group show, Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, NY 2014 Landscape Offering, group show, Wailoa Arts & Cultural Center, Hilo, HI 2013 Crossing State Lines: A Survey of American Printmakers, group show, International Printmaking Conference and Print Festival Scotland. Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland 2013 Air, Land, Seed, group show, University of Ca’ Foscari, on occasion of the Venice Biennale 54th International Arts Exhibition, Palazzo Cosulich, Zattere Dorsoduro, Venice, Italy 2013 ENCODED: Traditional Patterns/A Contemporary Response, group show, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota Duluth Artist’s statement Within the history of printmaking, lithography, etching, and screen print have been used to publish botanical and ornithological illustrations for the colonizing purposes of naming, identification, capture, and collection. My contemporary work in printmaking seeks to change that perspective from subjugation of the land to a forward thinking perspective of how plant and animal species carry the story of human impact on environment. This series of work was made in collaboration with the Moore Lab of Zoology of Occidental College and guided by the research of John E. McCormack and James M. Maley. The artwork responds directly to the science of conservation genetics and how to interpret scientific results in studies when a species of conservation concern is in question. In 2013, land developers petitioned the U.S. Department of the Interior and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to remove the coastal songbird, California gnatcatcher, from listing under the U.S. Endangered Species Act, which could open 197,000 acres of currently protected habitat to human development. Work in Show Emily Arthur (American, b. 1972) Not available at press time.

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